Lawyers Gone Bad
Money Sex And Madness In Canadas Legal Profession
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2008
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670065042
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $36.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143056102
- Publish Date
- Jul 2008
- List Price
- $13.5
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Description
In this shocking and delicious exposé, Philip Slayton, a respected corporate lawyer and former dean of law, sheds light on those who betrayed clients and committed crimes—sometimes for very little personal gain.
While recounting actual cases of Canadian lawyers who ran afoul of the law, using one-on-one interviews with the offenders and their families, Slayton searches for what drives a respected professional to corruption.
Sharp and insightful, this book is a call for reform of the legal profession as well as an entertaining, eyebrow-raising look at the few who give lawyers a bad name.
About the author
Born in England and raised in Manitoba, PHILIP SLAYTON is a Canadian lawyer and the former dean of law at the University of Western Ontario. He is the best-selling author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, among other books. A Rhodes Scholar, he has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and President of PEN Canada. Married to the writer Cynthia Wine, he lives in Toronto and Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia.